johnnyp said:

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RockyTopDW said:

wow, the lack of testicular fortitude some of you demonstrate is amazing.  one would assume from reading half of the above posts that this was a site for grilling veggies and tofu, plus the occasional gluten-free product. how many of you that oppose trump are employees for someone?  how many of you that oppose trump actually own businesses or are self employed?  i posted this question on another site and the responses were pretty amazing.

stantrb said:

We move forward and make America great "again" by focusing on barbecued mutton instead of Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and all the other **** we've decided is essential to our daily lives.

Never watch cable news of any ilk.  Trust your local newspaper if they give you no reason not to.  Put down your phone. 

That's how you make America great. 

But we won't make America great "again" until the sideshow out there that lives on twitter, facebook, Instagram, youtube, shuts up about how terrible America is.  Yesterday, we had a peaceful transition of federal power from one administration to another administration who then immediately began whitewashing the previous administration out of history.  In other nations, that kind of thing doesn't happen.  It leads to a civil war and a military takeover.  If you don't believe America is great simply because of peaceful transitions of power, then you're drinking the Kool-Aid. 

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I cheered on our democratic, first black president.  

Im disappointed to hear this brother Brent. You had to know that it was a disaster in the making.
 
Not happy with the results

My brother, it could not have ended any other way.  

Brother @SGH , I regret that I am only allowed one vote to agree with you here.  Your post deserves at least half a dozen agrees and as many likes.  Eight years ago, I also knew the disaster was somewhat inevitable.   When the spineless republicans in Congress just stepped aside and let the American people get trampled by this socialist president, the outcome was certain economic turmoil.  It's a good thing his foreign policy was rock solid crappy because that helped distract people from the stellar cesspool economy.

Whenever I read stuff like that I swear some of us must be living in parallel universes.

Yeah?  Since the economy took a crap in 2008, I have received exactly one pay raise which was previously scheduled.  The raise was more than offset by immediate  increased healthcare costs.  I have taken a handful of pay cuts since then.  We've had a bunch of folks laid off and they're not coming back.  I'm glad you're doing so well brother, but some of us are not as fortunate as you.

I get that the crash/recession of 08 hit a lot of people hard and many folks may still be in a pinch.

What I don't buy is blaming Obama.

Housing prices in most areas have recovered to pre-crash levels, mortgage rates are very low, the stock market has doubled, yadda yadda yadda.

How about job killing gubmint regulations as imposed by the executive branch through the bureaucracy?  Do you think all the unprecedented numbers of executive orders are to make it easier for business to hire people?  

Its all a matter of judgement of how the American people are best served.  When the doofus in charge sees global warming as the biggest threat to people rather than radical Islam (oops I said it), then there is a serious problem with judgement and priority.  Radical Islam is actively working to wipe western civilization from the face of the Earth.  They will do what they can to kill us and destroy our economy, but let's concentrate on reducing cow farts because they're deadly.  If cow fart reduction makes our economy weak, so be it.

You do know (well...apparently you don't actually) that Dubya and Clinton and Reagan signed more executive orders than Obama right?

Again, the genius either doesn't know or is deceitful. It's the type of things you execute the orders on that really matters. Things that are not in the executives authority. This will be screamed about in the coming year. I bet you and the clown posse are the first in line. Hypocrites!

now you'll pretend you don't get it and ask a bunch of stupid questions I'm guessing.